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How the internet affects job matching is not well understood due to a lack of data on job vacancies and quasi …-experimental variation in internet use. This paper helps fill this gap using plausibly exogenous roll-out of broadband infrastructure in …
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How does the internet affect young people’s mental health? We study this question in the context of Italy using … combine with information on the availability of high-speed internet at the municipal level. Our identification strategy … previously irrelevant but became salient after the advent of the internet. We find that access to high-speed internet has a …
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Millions of citizens and firms lack access to high speed internet, even though governmentspledged to spend huge sums of … money to subsidize internet networks. In this paper we reviewsome systematic flaws of present subsidy policies and outline a …
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This paper estimates the effect of home high-speed internet on national test scores of students at age 14. We combine …
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aid significantly increased broadband coverage. More importantly, we find that the number of internet providers has …
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In this paper, we evaluate the efficiency of the French State aid plan for broadband deployment, the Plan France Très Haut Débit. According to State aid rules, public subsidies should not be substitute for private investment and should target areas with market failures. We estimate a...
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Does the Internet undermine social capital or facilitate inter-personal and civic engagement in the real world? Merging … unique telecommunication data with geo-coded German individuallevel data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects …-owned telecommunication provider in the 1990s that still hinders broadband Internet access for many households. We find no evidence that the …
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Competition authorities and regulatory agencies sometimes impose pricing restrictions on firms with substantial market power the dominant firms. We analyze the welfare effects of a ban on behaviour-based price discrimination in a two-period setting where the market displays a competitive and a...
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This paper analyzes market segmentation in a two-sided market that consists of media consumers and advertisers. The analysis is motivated by a European Court of Justice Decision in October 2011, which allowed viewers to take advantage of international price differences and buy access to Premier...
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The movement to deregulate major industries over the past 40 years has produced large efficiency gains. However, distributional effects have been more difficult to assess. In the electricity sector, deregulation has vastly increased information available to market participants through the...
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